Install Venuera & requirements

Getting started ·4 min read ·Updated June 2026
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you want Venuera running on your WordPress site - the requirements, the install, and the one dependency it needs (WooCommerce).

Venuera is a self-hosted event-ticketing plugin for WordPress. It turns WooCommerce into a full ticketing engine: events, ticket types, attendee data, PDF tickets, QR codes and check-in – with no per-ticket commission. This article gets the core installed and active.

Requirements

Before you install, make sure your site meets the baseline. These are the same versions Venuera is tested against:

  • WordPress 6.0 or newer.
  • WooCommerce 8.0 or newer – Venuera builds on WooCommerce for the cart, checkout, payments and orders.
  • PHP 7.4 or newer (PHP 8.0+ recommended).
  • The GD PHP extension, so the plugin can render QR codes and barcodes locally (ticket PDFs are produced by the bundled TCPDF library).

Venuera is fully HPOS-compatible (WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage), so you can keep the new order tables switched on.

Install WooCommerce first

Venuera lists WooCommerce as a required plugin, so WooCommerce must be installed and active before Venuera will boot. In wp-admin → Plugins → Add New, search for WooCommerce, install and activate it, and run its short setup wizard (store address, currency). You do not need to add products – Venuera creates the ticket products for you.

Install Venuera

  1. Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and choose the venuera.zip file (or search the plugin directory if you installed it from there).
  2. Click Install Now, then Activate.
  3. A new Venuera menu appears in the wp-admin sidebar. That is your home base for events, tickets, settings and reports.

The Venuera menu appears in wp-admin after activation.
The Venuera menu appears in wp-admin after activation.

What you get in the free core

The core is genuinely usable on its own – it is not a trial. Out of the box you can:

  • Create events and sell simple or variable ticket types through WooCommerce.
  • Design tickets in the built-in Ticket Designer and deliver them as PDFs.
  • Issue a unique QR code (or 1D barcode) per ticket and check people in manually with check-in rules.
  • Collect a basic attendee name and export attendees to CSV/PDF.

The premium add-ons – Point of Sale, Recurring Events, Venue Designer, Custom Attendee Fields and the Check-in app – layer on top of the same core when you need them.

Next step

With the core active, you are ready to create your first event.

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